[B-Greek] Semantic Range of Prepositions

Yancy W Smith yancywsmith at sbcglobal.net
Sat Mar 20 17:14:11 EDT 2010


> Elizabeth Kline said:
> One method for dealing with this "balancing act" is Prototype theory


OK, I'm up to Wkipedia level of expertise now on Prototype Theory. I  
have to confess that traditional, Aristotelian semantic treatments  
have seemed clunky, not accounting adequately for fuzzy categories.  
So, how would PT account better for the semantics of PERI and  
prepositions in general?

Yancy




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